Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs.

I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

Love is someone you can be silly with

I am animated by my joyful life. I let my inner child feel loved and experience joy every day.

If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.

Mercy is weakness. Offer it to your enemies and you might as well fall upon your own sword.

Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible).

You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

There's no way out of here.

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

A lot of men are impotent and it's very sad. How many of you are impotent? I see. Can't get your arms up either?

When there's no turning back, your instincts will lead you forward.